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Photography

“A stunning website with wonderful photos from the most perceptive critic writing about jazz today,” Prof/Dr Tommy Smith, Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Artistic Director of Jazz, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.

A Unique Collection of Over 2,500 Rare and Previously Unseen Jazz Photos That Can Be Purchased for Commercial and Private Use

The Collections Tabs showcase selected photographs under various genres of jazz to illustrate the range of the archive. The “Play Slideshow” facility is a useful aid to view these photos in full screen mode.

The Artists Tabs are in alphabetical order but note that on this website they are filed under first names first, thus Miles Davis will be under the “M” tab and not the “D” tab, Joe Zawinul will be found under the “J” tab and not the “Z” tab and so on.

Generic categories are filed under “N” for “New York,” “B” for “Brecon Jazz” and so on.

Note that if you have an ADSL connection of 10Mbps or less, downloading a Collection or an individual artist to view may take between 30-60 seconds, depending on the number of images.

All are invited to use the archive, subject to the terms and conditions of use. Click on an image click and follow the onscreen prompts to enquire about fees for personal use or obtaining a licence for commercial use.

To include the number of photographs we have on this website it was necessary to display them in relatively low resolution format. Note that all photographs are supplied in high resolution 2800 dpi Jpeg files.

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IMPORTANT — Your attention is drawn to fact that this photographic archive comprises entirely of material protected by national and international copyright law and that the European Court of Justice has ruled that internet users must ask for a photographer’s permission before publishing their images online, even if the photos are already freely accessible elsewhere online.

“The posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author,” the EU’s top court said ina statement. “The Court goes on to hold that, subject to the exceptions and limitations laid down exhaustively in that directive, any use of a work by a third party without such prior consent must be regarded as infringing the copyright of that work.”

Please note that any copyright infringements will be pursued with diligence.